As I mentioned back in August, this year’s crop of Cardinals includes one that is gray.
It was then, and it still is today, and it still manages to evade getting photographed. I watched it on the feeder for several minutes this morning, and of course the camera was in the office at the far end of the house.
I’m assuming it’s female since all the young males are mostly red by now, but it doesn’t look much like its sisters either. It is the right shape and size, and the other Cardinals accept it as one of their own, but where they are tan to reddish brown, it is pale gray to almost black.
It has a slight rose blush to its beak, and when the light is right, you can see a hint of red in the tail feathers on the underside of its tail. Otherwise, it looks for all the world like a charcoal drawing of a Cardinal from some ornithologist’s sketchbook.
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